Abstract
Purpose – Social entrepreneurship and social innovation have attracted particular attention from policy makers, academics, and practitioners since the year 2000. As this area of knowledge is still incipient in the present literature, this study aims to develop and validate a scale to understand how social entrepreneurs identify social innovations generated by their entrepreneurships. Design/methodology/approach – In order to validate the scale , we applied it to 264 social enterprises in the 27 confederative units of Brazil. The statistical techniques used, besides the descriptive analysis of frequencies and central tendency and variability measures , were exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Findings – The results point to a validated scale consisting of 23 items that classify and identify social innovations of the product, organizational , and marketing types, and of incremental, disruptive , and institutional depths. Originality/value – The contribution to the understanding lies in the fact that the scale may stimulate social entrepreneurs or new entrants to better allocate their resources or their attention to certain types of social innovations in order to achieve better results for their entrepreneurships.
Highlights
Few social phenomena have attracted as much attention since the 2000s as the pursuit to reduce world poverty and improve world health
Most organizations serve the consumers of a city or community (43.18%), there is a good representation of organizations with greater coverage: one state or region (23.48%); a country (20.45%); and a number of countries (12.88%)
Incremental social innovation variables 1-Our products/services already existed, but we have improved them and reduced the costs so that people who are in situations of social vulnerability can have access to them. 2-We have developed new products/services that are cheaper than the ones that already existed and that serve socially vulnerable populations. 3-We have improved products and/or services that already existed to reduce the environmental impact and/or to serve people in situations of social vulnerability
Summary
Few social phenomena have attracted as much attention since the 2000s as the pursuit to reduce world poverty and improve world health This is a result of economic prosperity and of governmental and/or non-governmental organizations’ actions, which aim to rescue people living in conditions of social vulnerability and insert them into society, ensuring their rights and a dignified life. Unlike traditional entrepreneurship, which offers numerous resources for measuring its impact, social entrepreneurship is typically measured qualitatively. In this sense, some studies, for example the one by Comini (2016), have been conducted qualitatively with the purpose of analyzing social innovation generated by social enterprises
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